Parking, aaaarrrggghhhh!!

**Spacecadet** · 4 November 2008, 16:48

they probably have a 5 minute window after the ticket expires... you were 1 minute too late for that

**AtW** · 4 November 2008, 16:49

Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post

you were 1 minute too late for that

Or the parking attendent forgot to move his clock back 1 hour...

**Peoplesoft bloke** · 4 November 2008, 16:50

Didn't we have a few links to a forum that specialises in this kind of thing recently?

**TykeMerc** · 4 November 2008, 16:51

Appeals over the time aren't likely to win since the ticket issuer will have timestamps on his machine and camera.

Now if the limited time parking signage isn't perfect or the lines on the road aren't up to spec you can beat it as there are lots of technicalities they must obey to issue a valid ticket.

**d000hg** · 4 November 2008, 16:54

If the attendant only comes round every 30min or every hour, this is probably fair enough. Unless you can find a way to reasonably suggest clocks were wrong by a few minutes it's probably just tough... at least you were in the wrong so it's more unlucky than unjust.

**Uncle Max** · 4 November 2008, 16:56

yes but who is the judge of how accurate the clock on his penalty machine is?? How do I know if it syncs with the clock on the ticket machine? if his machine is 2 minutes fast and the ticket machine is 2 minutes slow... etc etc.

**swamp** · 4 November 2008, 16:56

£25!!! That's what I normally pay to park.

I take it you're not from London, otherwise your car would be on a flat-bed lorry on its way to the car pound, and you'd be looking for a taxi so you can queue up with the other mis-fortunates of the day, waiting to pay £250 to someone behind a small, barred window with "we will not tolerate any verbal abuse" written above it.

**NetwkSupport** · 4 November 2008, 16:57

Returned to my car today in public car park at 2.05pm (thereabouts) having purchased a ticket covering 12:00 to 2pm. Found a ticket slapped on the windscreen:

Date of contravention: 4/11/08, Time of contravention: 14:06
Ticket expiry time: 14:00
Car observed from 14:06 to 14:06

Not what I would call flexibility on their part. Anyone have any tips on how best to appeal. Seems to me that the accuracy (or not as the case may be) of the timer on the ticket machine and/or the officers penalty issuing machine could also be as inaccurate as my time keeping and therefore mean that I may not have gone over time at all (or barely). Technically I am in the wrong but come on....a matter of minutes and hardly taking the proverbial

Its not a huge amount (£25 if paid within 14 days) but the principle. Anyone ever appealed successfully with this type of thing?

I got a ticket for being 2 minutes past the ticket expiry - my watch was 5 minutes slow!! Anyway, tore the ticket up, threw it on the floor. Sold the car last week. and it was registered elsewhere anyway. am i a criminal?

**Cliphead** · 4 November 2008, 17:01

Originally posted by Uncle Max View Post

yes but who is the judge of how accurate the clock on his penalty machine is?? How do I know if it syncs with the clock on the ticket machine? if his machine is 2 minutes fast and the ticket machine is 2 minutes slow... etc etc.

Stop whining and pay up, you got it wrong.

Parking, aaaarrrggghhhh!!